From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Mar 2 15:10: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3371137BC55 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 15:10:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id PAA13861; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 15:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 15:10:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003022310.PAA13861@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Gregory Bond Subject: Re: bin/17134: problem with cron forgetting jobs Reply-To: Gregory Bond Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/17134; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Gregory Bond To: tshansen@nlanr.net Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/17134: problem with cron forgetting jobs Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:03:36 +1100 I have seen similar behaviour as well on various versions up to 3.4-STABLE. In particular, if you are testing cron jobs and repeatedly putting crontab entries in for say 5 minutes in advance of the current time, sometimes these jobs don't run (but the cron log entry is generated as mentioned in the PR). I've also seen this happen on cron on Solaris 2.6, btw, which is also _very_ broken with the handling of quotes, escaped % characters. There is no way under Solaris cron to get the literal string '%' (i.e. squote pct squote) into a command. Unescaped % is a newline (as per the manual), '\%' is passed as '\%'. This does work as expected on FreeBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message